In this lecture delivered by University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson, he explores 'The Gulag Archipelago' by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (buy on Amazon or listen to the audiobook for ...

Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson shares his new forward to an English abridged 50th-anniversary edition of 'The Gulag Archipelago' by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, published by Penguin.

Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and died in the ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in West Germany following his deportation from the Soviet Union in February 1974 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons By 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was already “Russia’s ...

“The Gulag Archipelago” is essential reading for Russian students, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday – unusual words of praise from a former KGB agent for Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s explosive ...

The book that made “Gulag” a synonym for the horrors of Soviet oppression will be taught in Russian high schools, a generation after the Kremlin banned it as destructive to the Communist cause and ...

) is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn based on the Soviet forced labor and concentration camp system. The three-volume book is a narrative relying on eyewitness testimony and primary research material ...

Although more than three decades have passed since the winter of 1974, when unbound, hand-typed samizdat versions of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago began circulating in what used to be ...

Although more than three decades have now passed since the winter of 1974, when unbound, hand-typed, samizdat manuscripts of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago first began circulating around ...

MOSCOW — Russia has made a once-banned book recounting the brutality and despair of the Soviet Gulag required reading in the country’s schools, the Education Ministry said in a statement today. The ...

The perfect romantic getaway for a night in Liepaja, Latvia: a night in a KGB gulag! I've packed some light reading, a toilet roll (just in case), a towel and an electric toothbrush. My guide and ...